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Keir Starmer’s Labour: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here

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Salutations .  Let’s save the pleasantries and cut to the chase, although don’t be too shocked if I plug my chat with the legendary Noam Chomsky several times along the way. I mean, wouldn’t you?  The Labour Party is no longer a democratic socialist party. The centre-right might like to call themselves “social democrats”, because they still believe they are the centre-left, but in reality, the dial has moved so far to the right they now find themselves firmly in Tory territory, competing for the flag vote.  Looking back, the proposals put forward by Jeremy Corbyn were relatively mainstream.   Now, I know a number of you Red Tory-enablers will read that last sentence, foaming at the mouth, screaming some old twaddle about the “hard-left”, as is your right to do so. But you don’t have to take my word for it, just ask Noam Chomsky - because he told me Corbyn’s proposals were “relatively mainstream” - that’s Professor Emeritus Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics.  You can come at m

My Chat With Noam Chomsky

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This interview is dedicated to our Becky’s dad, Ronnie, who was a huge admirer of Noam Chomsky. Rest in peace, Ronnie x I know right. Noam Chomsky.  I’ve had the pleasure of putting some questions to some of the most incredible people in the past - Alexei Sayle and Jeremy Corbyn being particularly memorable.  But Noam Chomsky?  Noam Chomsky, 93, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist - I am a ranty forty-something Twitter woman from North Wiltshire. Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics - I am the mother of two moody teenagers. Noam Chomsky argues that individuals are born with a predisposition to learn language - I just tend to argue and my language is often somewhat ‘colourful’.  Noam Chomsky believed that it was more than a coincidence that the majority of human languages follow simple rules and patterns when it comes to grammar - When it comes to grammar I would be put to shame by an 11-year-old.  So wh

One Tory Party Is Bad Enough, We Certainly Don’t Need Another One, Mr Starmer

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Warning: The following is likely to offend you if you still think *any* Labour government is better than a Conservative government.  It’s time for a reality check. It’s better to end your dream before it becomes your nightmare, for there is not the width of a fag paper between Starmer’s soulless Labour Party and Johnson’s corrupt Conservatives. I used to think any Labour government was better than a Conservative government, before and after the ‘halcyon’ days of Jeremy Corbyn.  This is clearly no longer the case, and if you’re still clinging on to the possibility of Keir Starmer’s Labour getting into government and being anything other than another rotation of the ruling class you need to give your head a fucking good shake.  Have you witnessed the red establishment defecating on the corpse of the Labour Party this week? The Labour Party is dead. This tsunami of abhorrence is Labour in name only.  Go on, call us “Tory enablers”, because you know deep down you are literally trying to us